Murray Wood: Isn't it time for more 'we' than 'oui' in Rideau Hall?
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B.C. cabinet ministers, First Nation leaders gather amid tensions over Cowichan case
VANCOUVER - Two days of meetings in British Columbia between provincial officials and First Nations leadership are under way amid tensions over a landmark Aboriginal-title court ruling. The province s...
Nov 04, 2025
Quebec government wants to restart talks with doctors over payment reform
QUBEC - Quebec Premier Franois Legault is extending an olive branch to the province's doctors amid a fight over a new law that changes how physicians are paid. Legault said Tuesday he wants to restart...
Nov 04, 2025
Fraser dismisses using notwithstanding clause to overturn ruling on child pornography
OTTAWA - Justice Minister Sean Fraser has rejected calls to use the Constitution's notwithstanding clause to overturn a Supreme Court of Canada ruling that said one-year mandatory minimum jail sentenc...
Nov 04, 2025
Ex-Hydro-Québec researcher, accused of spying for China, defends reputation at trial
LONGUEUIL - Yuesheng Wang, a former researcher with Quebec's hydro utility on trial for allegedly spying on behalf of China, testified on Tuesday that his first paycheck came six weeks after he starte...
Nov 04, 2025
Vassy Kapelos tells Evan Bray it's 'anybody's guess' if Carney's first budget will pass
Mark Carney's Liberal government is set to table its first budget on Tuesday afternoon, in what many political watchers see as the first real test for the new prime minister and his cabinet. The Liber...
Nov 04, 2025 The Canadian flag flies atop the Peace Tower on Parliament Hill in Ottawa, Wednesday, Oct. 30, 2024. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Sean Kilpatrick
N.S. NDP leader becomes housing critic, says government doing nothing to solve crisis
HALIFAX - Nova Scotia's Opposition leader has taken on the role of housing critic to draw attention to the province's housing crisis and what she says is the provincial government's lack of interest i...
Nov 04, 2025
Government needs opposition support on budget vote to avoid a winter election
OTTAWA - Federal politicians of all stripes say they don't want the coming budget vote to trigger a Christmas election - but nobody's ruling it out, meaning voters might soon have to resist the tempta...
Nov 04, 2025 Federal Finance Minister Francois Philippe Champagne shows his new shoes he will wear for the budget speech while participating at the making of the shoes, at the Boulet boot factory in St-Tite Que., on Monday, Nov. 3, 2025. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Jacques Boissinot
Champagne's biggest test yet — selling a 'generational' budget to anxious Canadians
OTTAWA - As Prime Minister Mark Carney looks to sell Canadians on his first-ever budget - one that he's billed as containing both once-in-a generation capital spending projects and austerity measures ...
Nov 04, 2025
Liberal budget earmarks billions for 'bold and swift action' to meet U.S. disruption
OTTAWA - Prime Minister Mark Carney's first federal budget takes a big swing at making Canada's economy a more attractive place to invest with billions of dollars for infrastructure and new tax opport...
Nov 04, 2025
Manitoba legislature session may be extended to pass 72-hour detention bill
WINNIPEG - In the words of Manitoba Premier Wab Kinew, a "game of chicken" is underway at the legislature with Kinew threatening to extend the current session in order to pass a bill that would allow ...
Nov 03, 2025
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Sarah Mills: Betty Nippi-Albright did the honourable thing by choosing to sit as independent
Sarah Mills says Betty Nippi-Albright's departure from the Sask. NDP has not forced a byelection, nor has she sought dea...
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The Evan Bray Show - Thursday, May 7
8:30 - Yesterday, Regina city council approved the deal that would see Brandt Properties purchase part of REAL District....
